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Hello, I’m Nishat.
Moorland & Mayfair is my corner for essays on books, culture, art and ideas, though books have a habit of taking over. I’m a writer and editor with an abiding weakness for Austen, the Gothic, mythology, beautiful sentences, and those questions about literature and culture that begin somewhere perfectly sensible and then wander off into stranger rooms.
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